Charlie Jade
Charlie Jade is a rogue private detective in a world dominated by greedy multinational corporations. While on an investigation, Charlie explores a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him from his own universe (alphaverse) to a strange parallel universe (betaverse). Soon, Charlie is drawn into a conflict that involves these two universes and one other pacifist universe (gammaverse) with unsuspected terror at its heart.
- 2005-2005
- 1 season
- Fox Network
- Suspense, Drama, Science Fiction
Charlie Jade is a rogue private detective in a world dominated by greedy multinational corporations. While on an investigation, Charlie explores a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him from his own universe (alphaverse) to a strange parallel universe (betaverse). Soon, Charlie is drawn into a conflict that involves these two universes and one other pacifist universe (gammaverse) with unsuspected terror at its heart.
Season 1 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 2005
Episode 1
The Big Bang (Pilot)
Fri, Apr 15, 2005 44 mins
Charlie Jade, a missing persons detective, finds a lost and scared young woman on the steps of his office. He doesn't believe her bizarre tale of being abducted and taken to another dimension until later when he is asked to identify her body at the morgue. This puts Charlie on the trail of 01 Boxer which leads him out in the desert as he follows "01". When Charlie tries to get a better look at the Vexcor facility he observes Reena and her lover in a shoot out with guards and is caught up in an explosion at the facility. Jasmine, Charlie's girl friend, can't find any trace of Charlie and when Charlie later wakes up out in the desert he finds that his world is some how different. Searching for clues Charlie meets up with Karl, a conspiracy journalist and resident of this alternate universe. Karl helps Charlie search for Jasmine while looking for answers of his own and the two of them come to the same conclusion: that Vexcor and 01 are responsible for what has happened.
Episode 2
Sand
44 mins
After the explosion, Charlie awakes in a desert under the gaze of an unknown young girl. The girl takes him back to civilisation where he meets Karl who takes pity on him. Karl takes Charlie to Cape Town not Cape City as he expects and Charlie begins to explore. He goes to his apartment and discovers it is derelict and condemned. He tries to find his drug dealer but the people at his house have never heard of him. Eventually, after many hours of searching he sees Jasmine and follows her back to a bar where she works. Unfortunately, when he confronts her she does not recognise him and Charlie is ejected from the bar. He remembers the unknown female missing person case he was investigating before the explosion and goes to the Glass Door night club where he discovers missing person posters of the unknown female. This is the last straw for Charlie as he wanders away from the night club lost and alone in a world that he is beginning to realise is not his own! Meanwhile back in the Alphaverse, the Corporation have begun an investigation into the explosion and appoint the sociopath O1 Boxer as their envoy to the other verses to try to get their corporate plans back on track in order to achieve their economic ambitions!
Episode 3
You Are Here
44 mins
Charlie reluctantly helps Lubinsky in search for the truth about the Vexcor explosion. Their investigation leads to Elliot Krogg, the Vexcor scientist believed to be responsible for the bombing. Meanwhile, Reena is holed up in a seedy Cape Town motel, feeling guilt-ridden about her role in the explosion and heartbroken over the death of her lover.
Episode 4
The Power of Suggestion
44 mins
01 orders his cronies to drug Krogg's girlfriend to aid in the extraction of information from her, which he will use to implicate Vex-Cor's board of directors in the bombing.
Episode 5
And Not a Drop to Drink
44 mins
Charlie witnesses 01 use water to vanish before his eyes. Charlie investigates the incident, learning of a contaminated water supply purported to induce visions. Meanwhile, Reena is kidnapped and 01 Boxer plots to take over Vexcor in Betaverse.
Episode 6
Dirty Laundry
44 mins
Charlie takes up his old job as a private investigator in a case where the poor are murdered for the black market value of their organs. Reena is being brainwashed and 01 Boxer discovers that the recent blackouts are due to Vexcor rebuilding the link to Alphaverse.
Episode 7
Diamonds
44 mins
Charlie searches for the diamond ring that he pawned. He learns that a diamond merchant, Eckman, is manufacturing diamonds for Vexcor that will allow the company to play "Big Brother." Meanwhile, Reena is sent on a mission to kill Galt.
Episode 8
Devotion
44 mins
Charlie is sent looking for a kidnapped girl, but it turns out the kidnapper was a hoaxer and the girl has fled from her parents to live with a much older man from Alphaverse. Galt and his chief of security are planning an attack on 01 Boxer and his new board. Reena aborts her suicide mission and is rescued by Rosalie.
Episode 9
Betrayal
44 mins
After being shot in Betaverse, 01 Boxer escapes using the shower to Gammaverse where he washes up on a beach near his house and is nursed by his wife. Karl is captured by Vexcor's chief of security and tortured to give up information on Charlie.
Episode 10
Identity
44 mins
Charlie discovers that a childhood friend, Gemma, from Alphaverse, works for Vexcor in Betaverse as a hydrologist. O1 Boxer discovers polluted water in Gammaverse and decides to return to Betaverse but discovers that he is no longer able to shift. In Alphaverse, Sew Sew questions Rompkin about missing people and their families who all have one thing in common: they were employees of Vexcor.
Episode 11
Thicker Than Water
44 mins
Gemma confronts Galt about the missing water but is dismissed as a lunatic. She teams up with Charlie and Karl to break into Vexcor to look for evidence. 01 Boxer manages to shift to Betaverse, but discovers he is the suspect of a murder.
Episode 12
Choosing Sides
44 mins
Charlie decides to find out how O1 Boxer travels between universes and see if he can take him back to the BetaVerse, but O1 gets taken in by the police first. So Charlie impersonates an FBI agent to take control of O1 as a terrorist. The police figure out that Charlie isn't a real FBI agent and are questioning him. Meanwhile Vex-Cor sends in people to take out O1 before he can talk with the police. In the melee that results Charlie takes O1 away for interrogation. After some extensive discussion Charlie seems to trust O1 and is willing to work with him for some reason (to save the BetaVerse?)
Episode 13
Through a Mirror Darkly
Mon, Sep 1, 2008 44 mins
Charlie and 01 Boxer have an extensive "discussion" before reaching an understanding. A new plot element is introduced that will have extensive implications in future episodes.
Episode 14
The Enemy of My Enemy
44 mins
After receiving a package with information on Vexcor, Charlie and Karl track the anonymous source, Reena. Meanwhile, 01 Boxer and Julius come to an arrangement.
Episode 15
Things Unseen
44 mins
Police woman Blues Paddock reveals to Charlie he's being hunted. They decide to investigate Vexcor together, while being drawn to each other. After Blues saves Charlie from an assassination attempt, he tells her about the Alphaverse. Reena comes face to face with her programmer and, in Alpha, Jasmine and Tukarrs get closer.
Episode 16
The Shortening of the Way
Mon, Sep 22, 2008 44 mins
Charlie searches for the little girl that found him in the desert to seek help in controlling his visions. At first she helps him visit the Alphaverse, just in time before the Vexcor assassin arrives. When Charlie returns to the Betaverse, the girl pours water over his head so that he can shift back into the Alphaverse for good.
Episode 17
Spin
44 mins
Finally home, Charlie must re-adjust to life in Alpha and find a way to save a friend he has inadvertently put on Vexcor's "naughty" list. Meanwhile, Brion Boxer visits 01's family in Gamma.
Episode 18
Bedtime Story
44 mins
Back in Alpha, Charlie considers how he has been changed by his time in Beta. 01 meets with a mysterious associate.
Episode 19
Flesh
44 mins
On the death of Brion Boxer a power struggle, for the control of Vex-Cor, develops between Essa Rompkin and 01 Boxer. Brion leaves his Vex-Cor shares to 01, his son, which gives him control of the company but Essa has him arrested for murder to stop him assuming control. Charlie Jade visits 01 in prison and they make a deal about the link and with the co-operation of Sew Sew Tukarrs, 01 escapes and Essa is arrested. Charlie and Jasmine have a heart-to-heart about their relationship and decide to part as both have moved on as a result of their separation. 01 with the co-operation of the board of Vex-Cor assumes the chairmanship and Charlie returns to the Beta-verse and his new love Blues Paddock! Only 12 hours remain before the re-opening of the link and the dreadful consequences that entails!!
Episode 20
Ouroboros
44 mins
Charlie and his allies desperately search for a way to keep the link from activating and destroying Beta, but one of their own has other plans.
